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Great stuff Jesse

Good grief Melbourne Only we could have 97% time in forward half and be behind after 5 minutes of play

Tyson was fine in absolutely awful conditions He worked hard offensively and defensively and gave second efforts Really, that whole mid group - Tyson, Bugg, AVB (in two and a half quarters), JKH (who also got forward), and Baker - was super strong Very impressed with Filipovic’s second efforts too, even if Preuss was the dominant ruckman on the ground AVB will be back in the seniors sooner rather than later if he can maintain that kinda form...you’d never believe he’s missed two years of football

tyson has wracked up the pill in atrocious conditions - ran hard both ways all day held a team goalless go dees

this weather is extraordinary my main interest is seeing whether or not we can hold them goalless

too small and slow to play midfield and not skilled or quick enough as a small forward option avb will, on this form, be playing afl before the year is out

jkh on fire

how many weeks in the vfl before vandenberg makes his way back into the afl? so strong and powerful

i have wafl and sanfl as options to watch, but no vfl... anyone got a direct link?

i'd rather be their supporters than ours over the last 12 months...

they have not been 'absolute shite' for some time four finals series out of the last five, winning on their fourth entry they steadily improved thru hardwick's first three or four years, dipped, and have rebounded to be as amazing as they are their consistency of not having injured players - or not key structural players at that - has been amazing

he's an absolute gun love his workrate offensively and defensively and he is a brilliant kick of the ball good in the air, good at ground level what's not to love?

pretty simple @beelzebub - tv rights deals around the world are shrinking this is the opportunity for us to get a home base before the big money of the last 15-20 years becomes a trickle rather than a flood

ultimately, getting this - or any other permanent 'home base' - in place by the start of the defining of the next broadcast rights deal is the test for the bartlett-pert regime if we don't have a dedicated home in planning stage by the end of 2021 season we are in big trouble

gaff or dalhaus for mine

Said that in this thread a couple of times He is consistently a 15-25, 4-6 mark, 1-3 goal a game player - not sure he’s ever going to be anything else When he’s at the upper end of that he looks outstanding, but even at the lower end he’s still contributing

the push to have a bye post-darwin continues: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-want-a-break-after-darwin-games-20180705-p4zpoj.html

dunno if it was stretch - i was watching and then the vid disappeared as they removed it ch 7 won't be happy that they've gone early and broken the 6.25pm moratorium on team changes

carlisle punctured lung getting a massage (!!) and bruce a broken leg for the aints

they put the simon's selections video up early on youtube and then yanked it down garlett, spargo, frost and one other (can't remember who) for hannan, petty, weideman, and tyson

i'll take an ageing lewis and vince over wagner, anyday

seeing as we were all set to pick billings, while kelly would now be at the aints...i'll say no

north melbourne

the champion data dudes think we completely misuse him - they reckon he should basically be an 80% forward 50 player, as historically that's where he's shown to be the most damaging

it's funny, but if you look at our history of 'down years' over the last twenty years, we always seem to be at the bottom when the draft class is nowhere near as strong as our middling / good years they're raving about this year's draft class, and of course we've traded out of it 1997: arguably got this one right with pick 1 and pick 2 - trapper and jeff white (traded) 1999: banned from first round, our pick 4 gifted to freo cos they were wayne jackson's baby, same as gc17 and gw$ are gil's 2001: stuffed it up, picking molan 2003: chook mclean and 'one big pre-season away from superstardom' sylvia 2007: cale morton and jack grimes, sigh 2008: jack watts, double sigh 2009: $cully [later converted into hogan] and trengove 2010: pick 5 became pick 12 as we were shunted down the draft order via the introduction of gc17, stuffed it up by picking cook anyway 2011: same as above, except this time it was gw$, and we traded it for mitch clark 2012: pick 3 traded to ensure gw$ didn't nominate viney, wasted pick 4 on the toump 2013: 2 and 20 converted into tyson and 9 2014: 2 and 3 used on trac and gus 2015: oliver and weed 2016: used on above trade 2017 and 2018: used as leverage for lever at the time i thought it was a good deal, but clearly the pick 2 and 20 for tyson and pick 9 was a complete mistake given just how good kelly has become